Lawn-swing.



v G. H. MICHAEL.

LAWN SWING.

APPLIOATION FILED 1330.21, 1908.

954 197 Patented Apr. 5, 1910.

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79' 1 w J 5 [9: ,e/ lGl 9/ GEORGE H. MICHAEL, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA.

LAWN-SWING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1910.

Application filed December 21, 1908. Serial No. 468,466.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon H. MIcHAnL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lawn-Swings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in lawn swings, and more articularly to the chairs thereof and the object of my invention is to provide improved means for adjusting the backs of the chairs to any in clination.

\Vith this and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangements of parts as Will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the acompanying drawings Figure 1, is a view in longitudinal section and Fig. 2 is a partial front elevation.

Although my invention is adapted for use upon almost any chair having a swinging and adjustable back, I have illustrated it as applied to the chair of a lawn swing.

Referring now to the drawings 1, 1 indicate the parallel side bars which connect the two chairs of a lawn swing. Rigidly secured to the bars 1 and extending upwardly therefrom are the front and rear up rights and 3 respectively upon which the seat 4k is mounted.

5 indicates diagonal braces extending from the lower end of the uprights 3 to the upper end of the uprights The frame is further braced by the horizontal side members (3 which constitute tracks for the swing. The members are secured to the uprights 2 and 3 and are further braced at their rear ends by diagonal metal braces 7 and hangers 8.

The backs 9, are pivotally connected to the rear pairs of uprights 3, and the seat and back are preferably of the well known slatted form, although they may be of any other construction desired. Arms 10 are pivotally connected to the backs 9 and are connected by rods 11 with the front standards 2. These rods 11 are so secured to the standards and arms, that they will be permitted free pivotal movement at such connections and allow the back 9 to be freely adjusted, or to be swung down on the seat as may be desired.

To adjust the chair back and secure it at any desired position, I provide adjusting rods 12, these rods 12 being provided for both sides or ends of the chair. These rods are bent at right angles at their ends, and the upper ends are pivotally supported in brackets on the lower faces of the chair arms near the chair backs and the lower ends are adapted to engage between any of the teeth of ratchet shaped toothed racks 13, secured to the forward uprights 2, and a keeper 14 is provided for each rack to prevent accidental movement of the adjusting rods. This keeper is in the form of a bail pivotally connected to the uprights at its upper end, and having a recess in its lower end to enter behind the head of a pin or screw 15 and normally hold the keeper in position over the teeth of the rack, but which will permit the keeper to be swung to one side and the rod disengaged from the rack and thus enable the chair backs to be swung down on the seats, to fold the device into small compass for packing or shipping.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a seat, with a back hinged to said seat, arms hinged to said back, pivot rods connecting the arms and the seat, pivoted rods COnIleCtlDg the arms with the seat support to hold the back at any angle, toothed racks on the seat support to receive the ends of said last mentioned rods; and keepers having a pivotal mounting on said seat support and adapted to normally hold the rods in position to engage the rack.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a seat and a hinged back on said seat, a seat support, toothed racks on said support, rods adjustably held in said racks and adapted to support said back, and a keeper normally over the teeth of said rack to prevent accidental movements of the rods, said keeper being pivoted at its upper end and adapted to swing laterally in a plane at substantlally right angles to said rack to permit adjustment of the rod on the rack name to this specification in the presence of and means below said rack for engaging two subscribing Witnesses.

the lower end of said keeper to normally hold the same in closed position, said lower GEORGE MICHAEL 5 end being notched to receive said means, lVitnesses:

substantially as described. N. B. PHILLIPS,

In testimony whereof I have signed my DANL. PRICE. 

